As widely anticipated, Apple's new major OSX release is available this morning, download-only, for $29.99 USD in the Mac App Store. There's a quick copy and paste job of the feature list after the jump. Also as expected, there's a new, Sandy Bridge-based Macbook Air. Update: A reader pointed out John Siracusa's Lion review at Ars.

If I were to create a boot DVD (using the .dmg inside the installer) and install using that, could I choose not to have a recovery partition created? Space is a little tighter than it used to be: the SSD in there now is not as big as the two failed hard drives it replaced.